By empty (2/21/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Acting Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov has accused controversial businessman Boris Berezovsky of financing Chechen separatists in the 1990s. \"Berezovsky repeatedly met with warlords and offered a financing scheme to them. Berezovsky said to the militant leaders, \'I can\'t give you money directly, and therefore I suggest that you kidnap Russian civilians and servicemen in Chechnya, then I will pay you millions of dollars under in ransoms for them\',\" Kadyrov said meeting with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Tuesday.
Acting Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov has accused controversial businessman Boris Berezovsky of financing Chechen separatists in the 1990s. \"Berezovsky repeatedly met with warlords and offered a financing scheme to them. Berezovsky said to the militant leaders, \'I can\'t give you money directly, and therefore I suggest that you kidnap Russian civilians and servicemen in Chechnya, then I will pay you millions of dollars under in ransoms for them\',\" Kadyrov said meeting with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Tuesday. \"The militants received millions of dollars under this scheme, with which they bought weapons and ammunition,\" he said. Kadyrov also accused certain countries of \"providing shelter to leaders of illegal armed groups, including Zakayev, Akhmadov, Udugov and others.\" \"The terrorist attack at the Dynamo stadium in Grozny on May 9, [2004], which killed Akhmat Kadyrov and others, was financed by Akhmed Zakayev, who is currently resident in London,\" Ramzan Kadyrov said. (Interfax)